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[Review] Butterflies: Episode 1-3 (PC)
They understand the concept of love.
After Bomb Rush Cyberfunk wowed me, I wanted to take a second look at this even more indie project memorialising Jet Set Radio. I've played Episode 1 (and some pre-release demos) before but since then, French lead dev Le Capitaine and their Le Crew have finalised Episodes 2 and 3, and published them to Steam as a bundle. Supposedly it's still to be continued but for now the team is hard at work on an F-Zero homage. Hopefully they come back and keep expanding this because what's there so far is really good!
Rather than using JSRF as a jumping off point for gameplay, Butterflies seems to prefer refining what the original JSR was doing. This means a more realistic sense of inertia, and managing the momentum of your crew of inline-skating delinquents. The dash button is there to pick up speed on the ground and grinding rails is not effortless. It's clearly set on improving the clunky play control of the Dreamcast game though, and the result is fast, technical, and satisfying... when you've put some time into mastering it.
To get you there is a low-pressure kind of game design with a set of missions that populate the large levels. You can roam around, tackling them and finding tag spots as you please without a timer ticking down, which on its own is a big step up from JSR for me. These tasks are usually races that pass through checkpoints or specific line runs that require keeping a combo going—some in Episode 1 are particularly strict—while Episode 3 adds in extra graffiti challenges. Going through the checklist is a nice way of showing off these urban sandbox levels as you hunt for write spots or (as of Episode 2 onwards) collectible music tracks.
Each episode has one map to itself while advancing the overall story. The first two are hilly suburban areas, with a bit of industrial in E1, and E3 features a sprawling inner-city area connected by train tracks. Powerlines to grind on and the ability to wallgrind on almost any wall if you have enough speed help you traverse the high degree of verticality built into these zones. The first two episodes have an interesting grungy, sketchy look while the third revamps things with more colour and shiny detail. Populating the maps are your typical low-poly NPCs (I spotted some modelled on Lammy and Parappa!) as well as bear-hugging cops, flying police drones, and zap-projectile-slinging cameras: as of E3, these can all be dealt with by a quick application of spray paint (which by the way is unlimited).
The story is handled a bit more seriously than in some other street punk simulators. In this near-future world, a Japanese city has seceded and is now run as an independent autocracy by one General Sakamoto, and by the end of E3 the rebellious Nat and her growing Butterflies crew are gearing up to rise above petty rudie squabbles and vandalism to really fight back against the fascism. The inclusion of real-world cultures and concerns keeps the tone grounded, like when one of your teammates Jae (who tags in Hangeul) comments on the treatment of Korean immigrants; another, Zinnie, wears a hijab and interjects in Arabic, while Rin is a trans girl and you follow her journey of self-discovery in dialogue which I thought was handled pretty well.
On top of their characterisation in cutscene dialogue, these touchstones make the characters deeper and more relatable, more than just a cool cel-shaded character design. They also for the most part have clear strengths in their stat distributions; I favoured speed specialist Zinnie for getting around. Each one has distinct graffiti designs (they all get a refresh in E3 as well) that, while simple, usually include their name (in katakana) and tell you something about their personality. Writing involves a three-stage timing-based minigame so everyone has three unique designs, although you might find you end up with the simplest "bare minimum" one all over just to save time with the ~200 spots per map.
Since Butterflies has been released episodically over five years, it's interesting to watch as the new instalments make changes and become more polished. It's still rough around the edges even as of E3 but solid enough, and this release structure gives me hope that even more refinements will be implemented going forward (a better in-game map would be nice!). Either way, I've enjoyed what's there so far, and it's refreshing that multiple projects have been springing up in this vein while having their own character: in this case a little bit subdued, down to earth, but it's got heart.
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shanks has a Tabac in Croix-Rousse (get it ? Shanks le Roux. à croix rousse. get it.)
il fait un prix a sanji sur ses cigarettes apres quil apprends quil est devenu pote avec luffy
#anyway fuck backgrounds#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#lyon au#east blue crew#luffy#zoro#nami#sanji#usopp is SOMEWHERE IM SORRY I FORGOT HIM#shanks#shanks le roux#red hair shanks
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ive decided to polish out the coffeshop college au from this post so heres the lineup of the crew from Colors and Mayhem: Cafe and Pub lmfao
so in this au hal's a biomedical engineering major in the area of neural engineering, working part time in a cafe&pub combo owned by callie and cal - fraternal twins who cannot stand each other but made a co-owned business bc theyd not survive on their own in this economy (they couldnt agree if they wanted a calm little coffee spot for studying and meeting friends (callies idea) or an older university partygoers hot spot (cal) so they combined the two into the unhinged mess that it is)
besides hal, theres: equius, engineering student who breaks shit all the time but theyre understaffed as it is so no one fired him yet; damara, a psychology major with the goal of becoming sexologist and gamzee. nobody knows what gamzees doing here
basically its pure chaos all the time
#homestuck#homestuck au#lil hal#hal strider#gamzee makara#damara megido#equius zahhak#jane and hal are roomies in this au and janes in a nursing school#while dirk and roxy study in a different city#(roxys also dirk and hals cousin)#and jake works in an animal shelter owned by the nitrams family! alongside karkat. gotta draw the shelter crew next#this aus giving me brainrot as you can see#also ive accidentally merged the fucking sketch layer with the lineart and just. rolled with it.#le sign#humanstuck#cam cafe au
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wait okay I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet (and I'm really sorry if this has been brought up before, to my knowledge it hasn't, but obviously I haven't seen every single post ever), during "perfect revenge" when they first go into the dead fish layer thing whatever, and around the time where uliana says "find that perfect, perfect revenge"
HADES LITERALLY GRABS ONTO MORGIE'S SHOULDERS AND DOES A LIL JUMP?? AND HE'S SMILING AND HE SEEMS SO HAPPY HE JUST DOES A JUMP LIKE
it's soo cute 😭 honestly in my opinion it feels super out of character for him, idk why it was even included but like maybe it shows a part of hades that's super bubbly, which he tries to mask with his apathetic, uninterested demeanor?
but the way he jumped on morgie's shoulders in particular, makes me wonder more about their dynamic? like is it because morgie's so bubbly that hades is like that around him too? and the way that morgie was quick to agree to hades's "yeah let's burn her to a crisp" makes me wish we got to see more of them. like imagine hades always acting so tough and unconcerned around maleficent, but finally letting loose and being super excited and happy when he hangs out with morgie.
anyways just a thought, I figured it would be nice to point it out and see what you guys think about it. that's all for now! :))
(also now I can't get the idea out of my head where hades is being all chill to maleficent like "yo imma go hang out with morgie" and she's like "okay whatever" and then cut to hades hanging out with morgie where they're both squealing and jumping up and down like a pair of teenage girls while one of them spills the tea 😭 I'm sorry I can't this is too funny 💀 I actually need a fic about this like this is some top-notch villain behavior fr)
#I was trying to watch hades's scenes to figure out how to write for his character#and I stumbled upon this gem#but now I'm even more confused about his personality#I honestly don't know how he should act#bro's super hard to figure out frfr#the hardest thing is trying to write for characters that you barely get any content for#because then it's like I don't know them well enough to be able to decide what they'd do in a scenario#which makes actually writing them really difficult#plus I'm always stressing that my writing is super ooc for whoever I'm writing for so that's not very fun#lilac’s rants#descendants#descendants the rise of red#descendants 4#d:tror#the rise of red#rise of red#hades#hades descendants#descendants hades#young hades#descendants young hades#morgie#morgie le fay#descendants morgie#descendants morgie le fay#perfect revenge#descendants perfect revenge#teen hades#d:tror vk#uliana's crew
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Marco le p(h)énix >:)
Le poti bonhomme
#fushichou marco#marco the phoenix#marco le phénix#marco op#marco one piece#one piece#op#whitebeard crew#aquarelle
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what’s going on in my head when i go to bed every night:
#i didn’t see anyone talking about this am i the only one who finds it hilarious?? 😭#joker out#bojan cvjetićanin#jan peteh#joker out crew#le shitpost
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#I'm going to make you fall in love with my new player and I'm not sorry#the netflix crew decided to film all my boys without a shirt on...#I didn't ask them to#but I'm not mad about them doing that either#robin le normand#he's hypnotizing you on that second gif
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Just keep the morning a bay a little longer.
@swanfloatieknight wrote this lovely Fitzier fic “Sîne Klâwen” based on middle high german poetry conventions, of having a watchman warn two lovers that dawn has come ☺️
#fitzier#francis crozier#james fitzjames#henry le vesconte#the terror#fic rec#Sîne Klâwen#my art#the heraldry above their heads is that banner Crozier’s crew made for him in the Antarctic expedition#with bees that seem to pop up on Crozier heraldry#i made up a design for James#it’s a rose for Rose Hill where he grew up over a bar sinister that’s a symbol for illegitimate family origins#the colours of green gold red white and blue are ones found on the portugese flag
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Low poly pigeons 🕊
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
#low poly#low poly animals#low poly model#bomb rush cyberfunk#bomb rush crew#pigeon#birb#le pigeon#t4t love
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I didn’t realize I actually had a physical (and extremely visible) reaction whenever I’m watching descendants ror and the VKs (specifically hook) comes on the screen 😭😭
My mom came into my room to ask for something (I still don’t know what for tbh) when life is sweeter was on and she asked why I was blushing and smiling sm which confused me bc i didn't think it was visible and she turned to the tv and saw hook and just went “oh”
(It was this part specifically that she saw)
#dude really has a physical effect on me#embarrassing#ljaylmaoo#yapping#he’s so pretty#descendants the rise of red#descendants 4#descendants#rise of red#descendants rise of red#james hook#joshua colley#joshua robert colley#hook descendants#young james hook#young hook#joshuarobertcolley#joshuacolley#vk#ulianas crew#fab 5#fab five#descendants morgie#morgie le fay#uliana sister of ursula#uliana descendants#maleficent descendants#hades descendants#disney descendants#disney
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I have only one word and one word only : CRI CRI CRI CRI CRI CRI CRI CRI CRI
"I intended to skip Purgatory 2 to catch up faster on VODs since I was told they were unrelated lore-wise But my biggest mistake was to vibe check all the new players - I was not expecting to completely fall head over heels for Team Capybara, hot damn I love them all so much ????" - Me, February 2024
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I took @sunshinetomioka's werewolf Guill headcanon and ran with it btw, credit to it
#you have no idea how painful it was of a dilemma for me to only pick one outfit for Jinki i am so bitter about it#JimmyBoyyy#Bastet#Bagi#TheGuill84#Scottonauta#Jinkiwinkki#the common factors between all the brazilians is the nose piercing#wait no actually this Bagi design doesn't have one here for some reason but my usual one does#btw i was hesitant for a long time before posting this because I didn't know what to think of my Bagi design U_U#Bagi is a veteran player which means I came up with a design for her months ago AND seperately from the Purgatory 2 new crew#and I had this artistic direction with all my other designs for veteran players that they would all look bruised and bloodied with dirty-#-torned up clothes and what not because it was Purgatory 1 back then (which is why my poor girl Bagi looks rOuGH here)#but then when I started drawing the new players I made them all look shiny and brand new#and I still cleaned up Bagi in her Purg2 version (no blood on her outfit !!) but she still clashes a bit with everyone else so idk man.#Also theres my watermark on this one when i said i wouldnt do that anymore for q fanarts#because this post has been up and ready since February and I lost the original files because I have a bad habit of not ctrl+S#ah et à mes mutu fr : Guill c'était le seul fr de tout qsmp dont je n'avais jamais regardé le contenu avant voilàdesbisousbye#qsmp#purgatory 2#qsmp purgatory 2#mcyt#my art
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Kiden Nixon will continue to haunt Laura Kinney’s narrative and yet marvel will continue to insist Laura is straight!
Who, exactly, do they think they are fooling here?
#themselves. probably#yes I have just read nyx issue 2#WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE TALKS TO KIDEN IN HER HEAD???#also#WHERE IS KIDEN???#WE KNOW SHE’S ALIVE!!! WHY HAS SHE BEEN MIA SINCE 20FUCKING10!!!#ESPECIALLY AFTER THE MOST EXPANSIVE AND ALL ENCOMPASSING ERA IN X MEN HISTORY ALL ABOUT BRINGING ALP OF ITS DISPARATE CHARACTERS TOGETHER!!!#hopefully soon#I mean would be kinda sad if the original nyx crew didn’t make at least one appearance in the new run right?#le sigh🤞#x men#x men comics#nyx#laura kinney#x 23#wolverine#kiden nixon#marvel#marvel comics#this is a Lesbian Laura Kinney Truther Blog 😤
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Y'know, as much as I want to see multiple episodes-worth of everyday friendship things and Beach(y)-episode nonsense, I have to admit that my train of thought today was actually inspired more by the thought of The Lads (TM) clashing.
More specifically, it came from remembering this gem of a scene from that very earliest pilot script in which it's not Irving who reprimands Manson for his refusal to enter the hold but Dundy (who is also described in the script as "impatient and shrill")
Isn't that just so fascinating?! Le Vesconte actively displaying callousness and poor judgement right from the get-go? Gore even being a bit antagonistic in the way he belittles Dundy as he leaves? It's such a fascinating thing to me and it changes everything!
#Part of it is also my personal dislike of the common fandom idea of Terror = Depression-Boat and Erebus = Party-Boat#It is of course largely a joke but still#There's so much going on for both crews#And I think you can miss that if you buy too much into that dichotomy#Just some more thoughts anyway#The Terror#The Terror AMC#Graham Gore#Henry Le Vesconte#Dundy#Terror Script
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Not my pinterest confusing my 1800's dead gay European ensemble casts for each other when I search for fan art
#les mis#les miserables#les amis de l'abc#the terror#the terror amc#is he there a tag for the terror crew?#I keep getting freezing people mixed up with my revolutionaries and my for you page is mixing up its alcoholics#popcornwithnate
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Okay okay okay
Im back at it again
So we had many many people hear me out and agree with me on cad bane (cad babe) so I’m confident someone will listen to me on this one
But before we start: hiii cad bane nation how are you guyssss
Okay okay so hear me out
NO LIKE PLEASE BRO OMG
HES SO FUCKING ICONIC LIKE I BE EXCITED WHENEVER HE SHOWS UP CAUSE I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE EPISODE IS GONNA BE FUN AS HELL
Him and Jack sparrow would be great friends
And yondu from guardians of the galaxy as well
They would serve
I can’t tell if I wanna be a part of his crew or if I wanna fuck him ngl
NO LIKE I HOLLERED AT THAT SCENE
#star wars#the bad batch#star wars rebels#se#clone wars#cad bane nation#hondo ohnaka#hondo ohnaka nation#RISE UP MY ARMY#no like HES SO ICONIC#I SMELL PROFIT#jack sparrow#yondu udonta#the pirates of the caribbean#he and Jack would SERVEEE#cad bane#hondo oknaka x reader#hear me out#le simp yaps#honestly I would join his crew#also love his voice#his voice actor had RENT TO BE PAID#his theme song is California love and y’all can fight me
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Marco the FUCKING pénix
#one piece#Marco the Phoenix#marco one piece#marco op#Marco the pineapple#marco le phénix#aquarelle#Whitebeard pirates#whitebeard crew#whitebeard one piece#op whitebeard
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